Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974, June 14, 1951, Image 1

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VOLUME 29, NUMBER 24
Change Made for
Next Fiscal Year
A revision of the City of Ver-
nonia budget for the next fiscal
year which will start July 1,
was made Monday evening when
Mayor Lyman Hawken called
another meeting of city council­
men and the budget committee
to examine the cost sheet in the
light of different information
than was available when the
budget committee met first.
With the changes that were
made Moijtlay, there will be no
necessity to call for a special
election which is necessary in
order to exceed the six per cent
limitation. The new budget calls
for taxes only in the amount
which falls within the six per
cent.
The need to call the special
meeting Monday arose when it
was learned that the figure for
the amount of cash on hand,
which item appears under the
estimated receipts, had been fig­
ured as of January 1, 1951 in­
stead of estimated for July 1,
1951, the date when the pro­
posed new budget will become
effective.
Budget men met Monday to re­
write the cost sheet with the
new information at hand. Be­
cause the amount of cash on
har.d as estimated for July 1,
was large enough, it was not
necessary to change the orginal
figure of $10,003 which had been
figured for park swimming pool
construction.
Construction work proposed
at the pool calls for replacement
of the log retaining wall on the
west bank by a cement wall ap­
proximately six feet high and
160 feet long and a wading pool
for small children.
The wading pool, plans for
which have already been drawn,
will be 20 feet by 30 feet with
drainage tile from the pool to
empty below the dam. This
work will be scheduled to start
during August in order to take
advantage of the season of the
year when water flow in Rock
creek will be lowest. In this way
the work can be accomplished
more easily and satisfactorily,
even though the summer swim­
ming season may be shortened.
The revised cost sheet, as
drawn up Monday, appears in
' this issue of The Eagle and calls
for the budget hearing to take
place July 2 instead of June 28.
At the hearing taxpayers will
have the right to appear and
express their views concerning
the proposed cost sheet.
Elliott Loses
Arm in Accident
Dick Elliott, 19 years of age,
suffered the loss of his right
forearm in an accident at the
O-A mill Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.
He has been employed at the mill
only a short time and was work­
ing on the chipper at the time
of the mishap.
Sources available indicated he
was on the chipper line and
reached his hand in to free the
chain at which time his arm
was caught and severed at the
elbow.
He was taken to the Portland
General hospital where his con­
dition is reported as good.
Dick is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. A. Elliott and graduated
from Vernonia high school with
the class of 1950.
Attendance Missed at
Service Prayer Meeting
Wc missed you. When? At the
service men’s prayer meeting.
Don’t be missed again, but be
sure and come for prayer in be­
half of the boys in the armed
forces at the home of Rev. Paul
Sisler on Friday evening at 6:45.
Rev. Sisler will be in charge.
THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1951
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTV, OREGON
Hawkins Rites
Today at 2 P. M.
Mrs. Molzie E. Hawkins passed
away at the family home in Ver­
nonia on June 10 after an ex­
tended illness. She was 72 years
of age. She was the wife of Bert
B. Hawkins.
Molzie Eunice Miller was born
in Dayton, Arkansas February
28, 1879. She and Mr. Hawkins
were married in Arkansas in
1905 and celebrated their 46th
wedding anniversary on March
5 of this year. They came to
Vernonia in 1924 and have re­
sided here since that time.
Besides her husband, she is
survived by a son, Glen F.
Hawkins of Vernonia; two
daughters, Mrs. Ida Mae Kudrqa
of Springfield and Mrs. Louise
Hayes of Gaston; two sisters in
the east and seven grandchild­
ren.
Mrs. Hawkins was a charter
member of the Vernonia chapter
of the VFW Auxiliary and a
Past Noble Grand of the Re­
bekahs, and had been active
in these activities until her last
illness.
Services will be conducted at
2 p.m. today from the Bush Fun­
eral Chapel with Rev. K. G.
West in charge. Pall bearers will
be: Bob Spencer, Harve Christen­
sen, Lloyd Thomas, Emmett
Lloyd, Emil Messing and Merle
Cline.
Graveside services will follow
at the Vernonia Memorial ceme­
tery with the VFW and Rebek­
ahs taking part.
Seabee Home Now
John Carmichael is home from
Port Hueneme, California where
he has been undergoing CB
training since January 15. He
is classed as a Building Con­
struction Apprentice.
After a 10-day furlough he
will go to Little Creek, Virginia
for further training in amphib­
ious construction.
Town Team Nabs
1-1 Win Sunday
Vernonia blanked Fulton Park
of Portland 8 to 1 behind five-
hit pitching of Roy Langford
while his team mates collected
10 hits off two Fulton pitchers
Sunday.
Byers led the hitting attack
collecting three for four with
Hartman and Desordi getting
two for four each.
R H E
Vernonia ______
8 10 2
Fulton Park
1 5 3
Batteries: Langford and Des­
ordi, Eckelman, Payton and
Davis.
Vernonia plays Forest Grove
Sunday, June 17 at 2:30 iat For-
est Grove, Clatskanie at Ver-
nonia Thursday, June 21 at 7
p.m. and Cornelius at Vernonia
Sunday, June 24 at 2:30.
Batting Averages
AB :R H Av
Hartman
32 6 12 375
J. Nance
15 1 4 266
W. Hunt
12 1 3 250
Isaia
» 0 2 222
R. Langford
4 1 1 250
Desordi
23 5 5 217
Byers
32 4 6 187
Brandow
22 4 4 181
G. Crowston
S 0 1 166
L. Galloway
28 0 4 143
Cline
28 2 4 143
Mills
4 0 0 000
McCammon
9 0 0 000
Society to Meet
The Columbia County Hisrtori-
cal Society will meet at the
home of Mrs. H. R. Dibblee in
W. Rainier Wednesday, June 20.
There will be a pot-luck lunch
at noon followed by the regular
business meeting.
Vernonia Nine
Tallies 10 to 3
Win Sunday
Anniversary Celebrated
Construction of
New Building to Be
Started Immediately
Fourteen Strike-cuts
.. Mark Day’s Mound
Activity by Pitchers
In a loosely played game
last Sunday at the Washington
grade school diamond, the Ver­
nonia Junior Legion team steam­
rollered over the Scappoose Jun­
ior Legion team by the score of
10-3.
Vernonia scored ten runs off
eight hits and three errors and
Scappoose made three runs off
two hits and one Vernonia error.
Scappoose scored two runs in
the third inning off a hit bats­
man, three Walks and an infield
hit. They scored their last run
in the fourth inning on a hit, a
walk and an overthrow off third.
Vernonia scored twice in the
second inning on a hit and an
error, twice ini the fourth on two
walks and a hit, three times in
the fifth on two hits, two walks
and two errors and three times in
the sixth on three hits and an
error.
Powell struck out six batters
and allowed only two singles.
Reed, Scappoose pitcher, struck
out eight but allowed eight hits
which included triples by Gwin
and Fulton, and a double by Ful­
ler in the sixth inning. Gwin,
Vernonia third baseman, collect­
ed three hits during the after­
noon and Powell got two hits.
St. Helens will furnish the op­
position for the game Sunday,
June 17, which will begin at
1 p.m. on the Washington school
field.
Scor by innings:
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Vernonia
020 233 10 8 1
Scappoose
000 210 3 2 3
Batteries Powell and Faulk,
Reed and Dering.
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Citations for
Driving Increase
Steps have alreody been tak­
en by the Vernonia Independent
church group to start the con­
struction of a new church build­
ing here, according to an an­
nouncement made Tuesday
morning by Rev. Gerald F. Hes-
kett, pastor of the congregation.
Rev. Heskett said that the
lot at the corner of Maple and
First street had been purchased
and that the new structure
would be termed the Calvary
Tabernacle.
Several suggestions for a pro­
posed building were submitted
to an architect and plans are
being drawn now embodying the
suggestions. The structure will
be built to provide complete
educational facilities for all age
groups from the primary up and
will also give an auditorium with
a seating capacity of 400.
The lot formerly belonging to
Mrs. Ed Laws was purchased.
The congregation is meeting
temporarily in the Legion hall.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Thacker who celebrated their 60th wedding
anniversary on Sunday. June 10.
Game Date Changed
The Junior Legion ball gam?
scheduled for Wednesday. Juns
20, has b;en moved ahead to
Tuesday, Jen? 19. It will be
played at .Rainier.
Three Students
Are OSC Grads
Three Vernonia students were
among the 1449 Seniors receiv­
ing their degrees from Oregon
State college on June 4.
Cora Mae Dusenberry received
her degree in Business and Tech­
nology and Barbara Keasey and
Ralph Keasey received their
degrees in Science.
Miss Dusenberry was among
the students honored by Phi
Kappa Phi, national scholastic
honor society.
Oregon traffic courts were busy
during May when some 3,338
Oregoians were convicted of vio­
lating traffic laws, the secretary
of state’s traffic safety division
said recently.
The
violation
convictions
showed a slight drop from the
April figure, but still indicated a
general increase over violations
of 1950, the office explained.
While other drivers were pil­
ing up violations, some 109 mo­
torists had driving licenses tem­
porarily suspended by the state
department after convictions or
court recommendations.
Fifty-
two drivers lost their licenses
because of reckless driving; 10
on speeding; seven on violation
of the basic rule; 10, hit and run;
10, failure to leave notice of an
accident and three, failure to
stop at an accident scene.
Eight suspensions were meted
out to drivers whose records in­
dicated they were unsafe driv­
ers. Such suspensions are given
by the state only after warnings
and interviews fail to correct
the drivers’ mistakes and atti­
MRS. MATTIE HOWARD
tudes, leading to accidents, the Mrs. Howard will conduct «van-
division said.
! galistic services in Vernonia.
Jalopy Race Enthúsiasts
Set For Sunday Thriller
St. Helens Jr. Chamber of
Commerce is sponsoring another
Jalopy race at the Columbia
county fair grounds this Sunday.
Approximately 2000 fans saw
last week’s run, which was one
of the best on record here. Thrills
and spills were provided in ex­
cess, and injuries are being kept
to a minimum due to new rulings
put into effect by the Jaycees.
Hard tops and roll-over bars
are standard equipment for entry
this season and other safety
measures are being enforced.
The track at the fair grounds
Church Group
Buys Lot for
Tabernacle
is being treated this week with
diesel and crude oil to eliminate
dust during the show, thus ad­
ding to the enjoyment of the
spectators.
Paul Cade, winner of last
week’s class A main event will
be in the pitch Sunday trying to
repeat his superb performance
H»will be competing with Oscar
Roth who holds the record for
speed on time trials at the local
track. Jack Gates, Paul Brasmer
and Wa’t Waldron. Waldron is
last year’s trophy winner from
points earned during the season.
1951 Polio Fund
Exceeds *50 Total
Bill Shipman
Home from Fight
Pfc. Bill Shipman arrived in
Vernonia Sunday after 10 months
in Korea with the 77th Field Ar­
tillery which was with the 1st
Cavalry division. He debarked
in Seattle Saturday from the
troop ship General Meigs along
with 3600 other men who made
the trip home on the rotation
set up.
After a 30-day furlough he
will report at Fort Lewis, Wash­
ington.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.
A. Shipman, made the trip to
Seattle to be there at the time
the ship docked.
Oregon's 1951 March of Dimes
brought in a total of $502,000, ac­
cording to a recent announce-
m nt by Dr. E. T. Hedlund of
Portland, chairman of the annual
polio fund drive. Total receipts
for this year were $70,000 great­
er than those in the 1950 drive.
Dr. Hedlund expressed apprec­
iation to the workers and the
public for their “generous ef­
forts” during the drive. The in­
crease in funds for the year,
however, are threatened to be
nullified by the heavy patient
carryover from 1949 and 1950
and the high polio incidence of
the first five months of 1951, he
stated.
Colulmbia county contributed
In a hard fought pitcher’s bat-
$7,321 to the state fund.
I tie, the Clatskanie Junior Le-
I gion team defeated the Vernonia
! Junior Legion team 2-1. The
game was played in Clatskanie
under lights. Each pitcher al­
lowed only three hits, all singles,
A name that will reflect the but a costly error by Powell,
spirit and scope of the historical Vernonia pitcher, on Pierce s
spectacle to be presented nightly grounder paved the way for
at this year’s Pacific Internation­ Clatskanie’s winning run. Powell
al Livestock Exposition is being struck out eight batsmen and
sought by exposition officials Puzey, Clatskanie pitcher, struck
who will present a 1000-pound out nine.
Clatskanie scored in the first
steer to the person who comes up
with the winning suggestion, inning on a walk, a hit batsman
Walter A. Holt, P. I. manaiger. and Luoto’s slashing single down
the first base line. In the second
has announced.
Holt said the steer will be inning, Kangas, Clatskanie catch,
slaughtered, the meat cut and er, singled and moved to third
placed in a frozen food locker, when Powell threw wildly to
including five family size hams first on Pierce's easy grounder.
and 10 16-pound turkeys, it was Kangas then scored on an in­
field out.
stated.
In the seventh inning, Ver­
The contest will be open until
nonia
scored their lone run. With
midnight June 30 and official
entry blanks, which must be two men out, Powell walked
used, can be obtained by writing and Fuller lined a hit into left
Exposition headquarters in North field that got through Eilertsoa
Portland. In the event of a tie, for a triple, scoring Powell. Ful­
the entry bearing the earliest ler then died on third when
postmark will be declared the Crowston fanned.
Fuller wielded the big stick
winner, Holt reported.
The historical spectacle, a new for Vernonia, getting two of the
P. I. attraction, will have a cast three hits off Puzey. Faulk, Ver­
of 1,000 persons and will be nonia catcher, got the other hit.
made up of 14 episodes, tracing Score by innings:
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the development of the Pacific
000 000 1 1 3 2
Northwest. It will include In­ Vernonia
110 000 0 2 3 2
dian chants and dances, the com­ Clatskanie
Batteries: Powell and Faulk,
ing of the fur traders, the great
explorers, Indian raids, birth of Puzey and Kangas.
Oregon as a state, comedy and
color of the gay 90’s, a 100-girl
ballet and many other lavishly
costumed presentations.
Holt said one end of the Ex
position pavilion will be trans­
formed into a mammoth moun­
tain setting from whose trailers
and valleys the spectacle will
unfold.
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Clatskanie Wins
Over Vernonia
1000 Pound Steer
For Prize Name